A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Earl of Gloucester, but was forfeited to the Crown by 

 Roger Damory, her third husband, a contrariant.'* It 

 was restored to Elizabeth de Burgh in November 

 1322,^* and descended to Roger Mortimer Earl of 

 March, grandson of Elizabeth Countess of Ulster, 

 who was granddaughter of Elizabeth de Burgh.^ 

 He was holding the tenement called Pope's Hall 

 at his death, 20 June 1398.^^ His son Edmund 

 Earl of March gave a life interest in his lands at 

 Pope's Hall to William Barowe,-- and died seised 

 of the reversion in January 1424—5.-^ The tene- 

 ment evidently came to the Crown at the accession 

 of Edward IV, who was grandson of Anne eldest sister 

 of Edmund Earl of March-^"* In the June following 

 his accession he assigned Pope's Hall in dower to his 

 mother Cicely Duchess of York,^' and the grant was 

 confirmed by Richard III.^* She died in 1495.^ 

 The manor afterwards formed part of the dower of 

 Jane Seymour.^ At her death in 1537 it reverted 

 to the Crown, and in i 540 was granted to Sir Ralph 

 SadleLr of Standon, then one of the king's secretaries. 



St. Bartrolomew*! 

 Hospital. Party argent 

 and iabU a chtveron 

 countercoloured. 



Plan of Buckland Church 



in consideration of his surrender of certain annuities.-^ 

 This grant was in tail-male. In 1544 Sir Ralph had 

 a regrant of the same lands in fee simple.'" He sold 

 Pope's Hall to Edward Hamond, a yeoman of 

 Buckland, in 1570.^1 Edward Hamond settled 

 Pope's Hall on his younger son Alexander in 1578.^2 

 Alexander succeeded his father in February i 5 yg-go,'^ 

 and app.irently obtained confirmation of his title 

 from Sir Ralph Sadleir in 1581.*^ William Tipper, 

 a 'fishing grantee,' who had a royal grant of Pope's 



Hall about 1592," evidently failed to oust Hamond 

 from the estate or compounded with him, since he 

 was still in possession at his 

 death in 1604.'* His son 

 John Hamond sold Pope's 

 Hall to John Bownest, gentle- 

 man, in the early part of 

 161 2.'' He bequeathed it to 

 his wife Mercy with remainder 

 to his son Thomas Bownest,'* 

 who was in possession in 

 1668.'' His son Thomas sold 

 the estate in 1687 to William 

 Allen ^^ of Great Hadham. 

 From his son Thomas it was 

 purchased in 17 14 by the 

 governors of St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, West Smithfield," 

 in whom it is still vested. During the 19th century 

 the governors consolidated their estate by the pur- 

 chase of other lands in Chipping.*^ 



In addition to court 

 baron ^' the lords of Pope's 

 Hall claimed to have gallows, 

 pillory, tumbrel and amend- 

 ment of assize of bread and 

 ale." Soon after Richard 

 Earl of Gloucester had seized 

 the manor he withdrew the 

 suit of tenants from the 

 sheriff's courts and retained 

 5/. from the sheriff's aid."" 



The church 

 CHURCH of ST. JN- 

 DREIV*^ con- 

 sists of chancel 2 5 ft. by 1 6 ft., 

 modern north vestry, nave 

 43 ft. by 1 8 ft., south aisle 

 43 ft- by I 3 ft., west tower 

 1 2 ft. by 1 1 ft., south porch 

 I o ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. ; all the 

 dimensions are internal. The 

 walls are built of flint rubble 

 with clunch dressings ; the 

 tower is covered with plaster ; the roofs are tiled, 

 except over the south aisle, which is leaded. 



Salmon *'' records that the following inscription in 

 the glass of a chancel window existed in his time • 

 'Nicholai de Bokeland qui istanc Ecclesiam cum 

 CapeUa Beatae Mariae construxit A" Domini 1348.' 

 The existing chancel, nave and the remains of the 

 south chapel of St. Mary, now incorporated in the 

 south aisle, belong to that period ; the west tower 

 was added about 1400, and about 1480 « the south 



14Vent 

 c 1400 



□ Modern 



" Mlns. Acrts. Wlc 11 +7, no. 9. 

 " Ibid. See Chan.Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill, 

 DO. S3. 



*" G.E.C Comflcti Peerage, ii, 269 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 

 23 ; 5 Ric. II, no. +3. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 34, 



" Cj/. P^:. 1422-9, p. 418. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. VI, no. 32. 



" G.E.C. loc cit. ; cf. Feet of F. Herts. 

 Mich. 3 Hen. VIII, 



« Cal. Pat. 1461--, p. 131. 



'^ Pat. i Ric III, pt. T. 



" Diet. Aj.'. Biog. 



" L. ami P. Hen. nil, irl, 3-9 (26). 



'■' Ibid. 



M Ibid. lii (2), 166 (70). 



" Pat 12 Eliz. pt. ix. The Hamond 

 family had resided at Buckland at least 

 since 1337 {CaJ. Pat. 1334-8, p. 438). 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxiix, 88. 



» Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 23 & 24 Eliz. 



** Pat. 34 Eliz. pt. vii. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccLxxxiv, 96. 



^ Feet ol F. Herts. Hil. 9 Jas. I. 



•* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxlvii, 77. 



»« Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 20 Chas. II ; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 2c Chas. II, rot. 179. 



*" Feet of F. Herts. Mich. 3 Jas. II ; 

 cf. ibid. East. 36 Chas. II ; Chauncy, op. 

 cit. 114. 



a6 



" Cessans, op. cit. Ed-winitree Hund. 

 48. 



" Ibid. ; cf. Close, 1862, pt. cli, no. 

 10; 1864, pt. ii, no. 17; ,865, pt. 

 cjtxxTi, no. 8. 



« Mins. Accts. bdle. 1147, no. a. 



'^Hund. R. (Rec. Corn), i,%9,. 

 Assize R. 323, m. 45. '' ^ ^' ' 



« Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 193. 



"There was a churchyard cross on the 

 south side ; see will of Richard Gille in 

 1504 ^P.CC. 23 & 42 Holgrave). 



" Hut. Herts. (1728), 304. 



'* 1° »497 Thomas Galer left 20.. to 

 the fabric of the church when rebuilding 

 was probably in progress (P.C.C. 6 Home). 



